1976 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1976.

Journalism awards

• Public Service:
  • The
    Teamsters Union on Alaska's economy and politics.^[1]
• Local General or Spot News Reporting:
  • The Miami Herald
    , for his persistent and courageous reporting over eight and one-half years that led to the exoneration and release of two men who had twice been tried for murder and wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in Florida.
• Local Investigative Specialized Reporting:
  • Staff of the Chicago Tribune, for uncovering widespread abuses in Federal housing programs in Chicago and exposing shocking conditions at two private Chicago hospitals.
• National Reporting:
  • Des Moines Register
    , for disclosing large-scale corruption in the American grain exporting trade.
• International Reporting:
  • Sydney Schanberg of The New York Times, for his coverage of the Communist takeover in Cambodia, carried out at great risk when he elected to stay at his post after the fall of Phnom Penh.
• Commentary:
  • Walter Wellesley Smith
    of The New York Times, for his commentary on sports in 1975 and for many other years.
• Criticism:
  • Alan M. Kriegsman of The Washington Post, for his critical writing about the dance during 1975.
• Editorial Writing:
  • Philip P. Kerby of the Los Angeles Times, for his editorials against government secrecy and judicial censorship.
• Editorial Cartooning
  :
  • Tony Auth of The Philadelphia Inquirer, for O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, published on July 22, 1975.
• Spot News Photography
  :
  • Boston Herald American, for his sequence of photographs
    of a fire in Boston on July 22, 1975.
• Feature Photography:
  • Photographic Staff of the
    Louisville Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times
    , for a comprehensive pictorial report on busing in Louisville's schools.

• Fiction:
  • Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)
• Drama:
  • James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and lyrics by Edward Kleban.^[2]
• History:
  • Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan (Farrar)
• Biography or Autobiography
  :
  • Harper
    )
• Poetry:
  • Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery (Viking
    )
• General Non-Fiction
  :
  • Harper
    )
• Music:
  • Air Music by Ned Rorem (Boosey & Hawkes)^[3]
    First performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on December 5, 1975. It is subtitled Ten Etudes of Orchestra.